glesica

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by glesica 7y ago
It was open sourced because it was a cool piece of technology and it would have been a shame to keep it back, but it is no longer in use at Workiva. Source: I work there, although I have literally nothing to do with this project.
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by glesica 11y ago
Isn't the Python interpreter implemented in C? How could Python run someplace that C can't?
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by glesica 11y ago
> Wikipedia is good for historical references (pre 1900 or so), and a good place to start if you just don't know anything about the thing you're looking up. Whenever I see people say stuff like this I mentally replace what they
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by glesica 11y ago
Meh, Americans also don't like dying horribly and will freakout if they think something makes that more likely. The FDA is relatively conservative compared to many other countries and, especially after Thalidomide, most people probably
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by glesica 11y ago
I haven't used Photoshop in quite a few years, but I'm pretty sure it works (or worked) the same way as Gimp. Maybe people who do a lot of work in image editing software are accustomed to this workflow? It seems reasonable, since
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by glesica 11y ago
> This will probably be the last release. I won't be able to work on Shoebill going forward (by contractual obligation), so I wanted to race out one last release. Really sad that companies put these kinds of restrictions on their em
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by glesica 11y ago
I don't know a ton about Common Core (I don't have kids and I'm not a teacher). However, I know enough to agree with you that, assuming they got it right, Common Core should be a terrific thing. However, I spent some time hel
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by glesica 11y ago
> buy deferred annuities from AAA rated insurance companies and build their own "pensions". Which, in a post-financial crisis world, also obviously involves relying on government-backing of the insurance companies and bailouts
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by glesica 11y ago
The same can be said for private companies. The difference is that private companies are allowed to weasel out of their obligations and the federal government picks up their pension responsibilities... https://en.wikipedia.org&#x
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by glesica 11y ago
Then quit and take a lower-stress job. Once you're at that point you can afford it (in fact most people in that position these days could just quit and reduce their living costs, maybe not even that). I think that's what GP was sa
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by glesica 11y ago
It's a shame that casino rights is the only meaningful form of recognition being offered...
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by glesica 11y ago
People like Warren Buffet talk about things being "mis-priced" all the time, that's how people like him make money. So yes, some risk might be priced in, but how much, and how accurately? In some cases, investors may have a
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by glesica 11y ago
There are a ton of reasons for the price to be "wrong" if a particular practice is unusual or new. Markets only function as well as the people involved in them. If the people are all acting (unwittingly) on incomplete, incorrect,
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by glesica 11y ago
I didn't downvote you, but I also don't agree with your assumptions. First, I don't think that desktop sites are such a big problem on mobile (though some are, admittedly, unusable). At least with a desktop site I can zoom an
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by glesica 11y ago
One important side-effect of a an author providing data and code, even though it is only good for re-analysis, is that it provides completely unambiguous documentation for what the original author "did". For example, if the origin
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by glesica 11y ago
> how people thought it would be in the first place. Naive educators desperate to show they are doing everything possible to improve outcomes + mountains of marketing and lobbying dollars from the companies that make the "solutions&
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by glesica 11y ago
Yeah, but wouldn't it really be a different crime anyway? I mean, state A would charge you for ripping off people in state A, state B would charge you for ripping people off in state B. Two, presumably disjoint, sets of people.
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by glesica 11y ago
But have any Republican elected officials actually put these policies into action? I mean, let's take Scott Walker. What has he done in Wisconsin? Seems like a lot of giveaways to the wealthy and not much else. This despite having a pr
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by glesica 11y ago
> Even showing no understanding of basic math when deduction + flat rate taxes are suggested. As a left-winger, my views and yours probably aren't that far off. I would be fine with a flat tax (that was actually collected from every
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by glesica 11y ago
Weird that the logo on the tail of the plane appears to be hockey...
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by glesica 11y ago
Meh, maybe the people whose first-ever programming experience was CS 101 prefer OOP, at least at first, because it is all they may have ever seen [1]. But Haskell and Lisps, among others, are widely admired and used in academia. Even if it
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by glesica 11y ago
I guess I've never really associated privilege and blame. Maybe other people do, I can't speak for anyone but myself. I do, however, think that blame is appropriate when a person refuses to admit that privilege exists. For example
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by glesica 11y ago
> you should be ashamed for being white, check your privilege shitlord You had to work pretty damn hard to get this out of that quote. His point was that a lot of people who say they (and by extension society, this part is important) don
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by glesica 11y ago
> All the more reason we as a society need to come up with a better solution to "unskilled people need to eat" beyond blaming the greed of silicon valley companies. I think part of the reason you see so many people blaming the
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by glesica 11y ago
> Email seems to carry the notion of importance, which is not true of chat messages I think. The reasoning behind this is, I think, an incoming email stands alone, whereas a chat message is quickly surrounded by other messages. This is c
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by glesica 11y ago
My recollection is that the death penalty, with all the appeals and procedure that are involved, ends up costing more than a life sentence. One of the first links from a quick search... http://www.nbcrightnow.com/story/
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by glesica 11y ago
> The funny thing most Greeks would be on board with this. gasp We can't possibly allow a country to do something we don't agree with just because the people want it! That would be undemocratic!
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by glesica 11y ago
> As of today, in this country, that's true. A few days ago, it wasn't. Anything can mean anything once words stop meaning anything. No, it was never true. What about marriage makes it specifically require a man and a woman? Th
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by glesica 11y ago
Contracts, by their nature, require consent. If there isn't consent, then there literally isn't a contract. Do you and I have a contract saying that you'll give me all your money? Without consent, we might. I'll be expec
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by glesica 11y ago
> Gay people do not have to be born gay, even if the radical majority tend to be. I thought about noting that "most" gay people are born gay, but I didn't. It doesn't really matter for my argument, provided that at le

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